Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee? is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on telling property tax, sales tax and user fees apart, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.Eco.12.3-5. It prints 3 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 11 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee?
D2.Eco.12.3-5
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Sort each payment into the kind it is.
1.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Based on how much a home and its land are worth, Paid to the city for the water a home uses, Paid each time someone buys a new bike, Paid to swim at the city pool, Goes up when a home is worth more, Added at the register when you buy shoes
Property taxSales taxFee
2.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Paid to park in a city parking garage, Added to the price of a new TV, Paid to get a license for a pet dog, Paid on school supplies bought at a store, Paid each year on an empty lot someone owns, Paid by a company on its factory building
Property taxSales taxFee
3.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Paid to rent a picnic shelter in a city park, Listed as TAX at the bottom of a store receipt, Added to the price of a toy at the store, Paid by a store owner on the building she owns, Paid by a farmer on the land he owns, Paid to join a city soccer league
Property taxSales taxFee
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.12.3-5 · Set 11 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee?
Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Added at the register when you buy shoes — Sales tax 2. Based on how much a home and its land are worth — Property tax 3. Goes up when a home is worth more — Property tax 4. Paid each time someone buys a new bike — Sales tax 5. Paid to swim at the city pool — Fee 6. Paid to the city for the water a home uses — Fee
2.1. Added to the price of a new TV — Sales tax 2. Paid by a company on its factory building — Property tax 3. Paid each year on an empty lot someone owns — Property tax 4. Paid on school supplies bought at a store — Sales tax 5. Paid to get a license for a pet dog — Fee 6. Paid to park in a city parking garage — Fee
3.1. Added to the price of a toy at the store — Sales tax 2. Listed as TAX at the bottom of a store receipt — Sales tax 3. Paid by a farmer on the land he owns — Property tax 4. Paid by a store owner on the building she owns — Property tax 5. Paid to join a city soccer league — Fee 6. Paid to rent a picnic shelter in a city park — Fee
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.12.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.